John Baxter may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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John Baxter (architect)
John Baxter (c. 1737 – 14 July 1798) was a Scottish architect who was active in the second half of the eighteenth century. His father, also called John Baxter (d. 1770), was a master mason from Edinburgh, and sent Baxter and his brother Alexand ...
(died 1798), Scottish architect
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John Baxter (publisher) (1781–1858), English printer and publisher
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John Baxter (director)
John Philip Baxter (31 December 1896 – 21 January 1975) was a British filmmaker active from the 1930s to the late-1950s. During that time, he produced, wrote, or directed several films. He directed Deborah Kerr in her first leading role in '' ...
(1896–1975), British filmmaker, 1930s–1950s
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John Baxter (author)
John Baxter (born 14 December 1939 in Randwick, New South Wales) is an Australian writer, journalist, and film-maker.
Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney. He has lived in Paris since 1989, wher ...
(born 1939), Australian-born writer, journalist, and filmmaker
* John Baxter, pen name of intelligence officer
E. Howard Hunt
Politics and law
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John Baxter (MP for Stafford), Member of Parliament (MP) for
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about south of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Wolverhampton, and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021–2022 United Kingd ...
. ''c.'' 1393–1396
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John Baxter (Northern Ireland politician) (1939–2020), Ulster Unionist politician and solicitor
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John Baxter (MP) (died 1611), English lawyer and politician
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John Baxter (political reformer)
John Baxter (17561845?), was a radical British writer and silversmith, living in St Leonards parish, Shoreditch during the 1790s and until at least 1817. He is noteworthy as chairman of the London Corresponding Society in 1794 and as one of the t ...
( 1790–1817), English radical and political historian
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John Baxter (judge) (1819–1886), North Carolina legislator and jurist
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John G. Baxter (1826–1885), mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, 1870–1872
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John Babington Macaulay Baxter
John Babington Macaulay Baxter (February 16, 1868 – December 27, 1946) was a New Brunswick lawyer, jurist and the 19th premier of New Brunswick.
Baxter served in the Canadian Army and was the author of ''Historical Records of the New Bruns ...
(1868–1946), premier of New Brunswick, Canada, 1925–1931
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John B. M. Baxter Jr. (1924–2000), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
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John Donald Baxter, politician in Ontario, Canada
Science
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Philip Baxter (1905–1989), British chemical engineer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, 1953–1969
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John Walter Baxter (1917–2003), British civil and structural engineer, designed the Westway
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John Baxter (engineer) (born 1951), British mechanical engineer
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John Baxter (marine biologist), British marine biologist
Sports
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John Baxter (cricketer) (1800–?), English cricketer of the 1830s
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John Baxter (footballer) (1936–2014), Scottish association football player
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John Baxter (rugby league) ( 1881–1927), rugby league footballer of the 1900s for Great Britain, England, and Rochdale Hornets
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John Baxter (American football) (born 1963), American football coach
Others
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John Baxter (explorer)
John Baxter (179929 April 1841) was an Irish convict who became an Australian pioneer, overlander, explorer, and offsider of explorer Edward John Eyre.
Origins
Baxter was born in 1799 at Comber, County Down, Ireland, a son of mariner James Ba ...
(1799–1841), friend of Edward John Eyre during crossing of Nullarbor Plain, 1840–41
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J. Clifford Baxter (1958–2002), Enron Corporation executive
See also
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Jack Baxter
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